Martial's Epigrams Book Two
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2004
316 pages
978-0-19-534820-0 (ISBN)
Description
This edition provides an English translation of and detailed commentary on the second book of epigrams published by the Latin poet Marcus Valerius Martialis. The past ten years have seen a resurgence of interest in Martial's writings. But contemporary readers are in particular need of assistance when approaching these epigrams, and until now there has been no modern commentary dedicated to Book II. This new commentary carefully illuminates the allusions to people, places, things, and cultural practices of late first-century Rome that pervade Martial's poetry. It analyzes the epigrammatist's poems as literary creations, treating such topics as the structure of the individual poems and of the book as a whole, and the influence of earlier texts on Martial's language and themes.
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Book 2. Edited by Williams, Craig A.
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02/2004
Oxford University Press Inc
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Craig A. Williams is Associate Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Martial's Life and Works
- 2. Epigram before Martial
- 3. Characteristics of Martial's Epigrams
- 3.1. Themes
- 3.2. Characters
- 3.3. Formal Features: Point, Bipartite Structure, Length, and Meter
- 3.4. Book Structure
- 4. Nachleben and Reception
- 5. Manuscript Tradition
- TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDICES
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
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